Michele L. Krause

Partner

Michele L. Krause has over thirty years of experience advising clients in sophisticated commercial real estate transactions. Michele is the head of our commercial leasing group and represents both landlords and tenants in all types of commercial leasing transactions, with a particular focus on retail, industrial and office properties. Michele also represents institutional and entrepreneurial clients in the acquisition, disposition, development and leasing of commercial, office and industrial properties. She also represents developers of multi-family, student housing, self-storage, senior housing and hospitality properties in connection with the acquisition, development, leasing, management and disposition of these types of properties.

Michele has significant experience negotiating development agreements, declarations, restrictive covenants, property management agreements and vendor contracts. With her background in environmental law, Michele has unique experience representing owners, purchasers, and tenants in connection with legal issues arising from environmentally contaminated properties.

Michele began her legal career as in-house counsel to Amoco Corporation (now BP, plc). Prior to co-founding Ginsberg Jacobs, she practiced at Holland and Knight, LLP and was a partner at Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC.